Artistic expression has a unique power to flourish even when the soil is arid and lacking nutrients. The COVID pandemic,…
Throughout its history, creative music has always been on a conceptual search for freedom. Ornette Coleman sought to move his…
If you are reading this, there is a substantial likelihood you arrived here under false pretenses. Apologies for the deception.…
We continue our conversation with Jason Moran by going deeper into the songs on his James Reese Europe inspired album,…
The passage of time can leave the legacy of important figures underrecognized. For every figure like Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker,…
We continue our conversation with the great Billy Harper by discussing the beginning of his professional career in New York,…
The lineage of jazz has long drawn upon ideas from gospel music, whether Louis Armstrong’s presentation of spirituals or Duke…
In the second part of our conversation with composer Anthony Davis, we do a deeper dive into his work, X:…
When one looks beyond the jokes about “the fat lady” singing or baseless accusations of the form being boring, one…
We continue our conversation with NEA Jazz Master Donald Harrison, Jr. (read part one here) by digging into Mardi Gras…